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Tokyo/Shanghai: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seeking to allay concern he would divert attention from fixing a fragile economy to revising a pacifist...

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's eldest son was on Monday arrested over alleged financial irregularities in connection with a...

Beirut: Rebels launched an attack against government positions in the historic centre of Aleppo on Monday in response to an offensive that cut a road...

New Delhi: Incessant monsoon rains wreaked havoc in parts of the country today, killing seven persons in Madhya Pradesh, four in Maharashtra and one in...

London: British opposition Labour lawmaker Angela Eagle launched her bid to take over the leadership of the party on Monday, saying current leader Jeremy...

Baghdad: The United States is stepping up its military campaign against IS militant group by sending hundreds more troops to assist Iraqi forces in an...

Juba: South Sudan's president and vice president ordered their rival forces to cease hostilities on Monday after days of fighting threatened to plunge...

Rome: The Vatican named former Fox News reporter Greg Burke as its new spokesman on Monday, the first time a US citizen has been entrusted with leading the...

Dublin: Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny resisted a call on Monday from a lawmaker of his Fine Gael party to step down over the next two months, rejecting...

Srebrenica (Bosnia): Thousands of Muslim Bosniaks paid respect to 127 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre buried in individual graves on Monday in a...